"Northern Ireland hadn't recovered from the depression of World War II; it was rural and conservative," Mr. O'Neill said, his voice revealing a hint of an Irish lilt.
In this sense, he was, he wrote, "old-fashioned — fashioned from the thirties of the Great Depression, the forties of war and the Holocaust and fascism, the fifties of the cold war and McCarthyism and Little Rock, and the sixties of the civil rights movement, the assassinations and the would-be Great Society".
Writing and bearing witness, almost always intertwined, were at the centre of her extraordinary life, and she changed many things: US domestic policy during the depression, the nature of war reportage and, perhaps most crucially, what it was possible for a woman to achieve.
Funnily enough, pocket money only became a common practice in families around the 1940s and 50s; perhaps it was a small cultural expression of satisfaction following the upheaval of depression, war and evacuation - children's pocket money signifying peace and prosperity.
The years 1920 1970 saw revolutionary change in the character of the monetary system as a consequence of depression, war, and finally prosperity.
Attlee's political genius was to give people a sense of hope, a clear route map out of depression, war and austerity towards the social and economic justice they craved.
The country was emerging from the depression and the shortages of war.
Yet, the importance of these stressors for mental health, particularly depression, suggests that irrespective of war exposure, daily hardships contribute to mental health problems.
When the original institutions that later became the E.U. were created in the 1940s and 1950s, the international system was designed on the ashes of depression and war to rebuild an economy of full employment and broad based prosperity.
Underestimating the resilience of the American economy, borne out of depression by war spending, he failed to anticipate the costs to the Reich of sustained aerial bombardment and naval inferiority.
